Tape Applicator Motor Assist

For this project, my responsibility was to build a custom motor assist for a tape applicator. This applicator worked in conjunction with a shrink-wrap machine, facilitating the effortless removal of plastic packaging. The original motor assist proved inefficient in unwinding the tape roll, exerting excessive tension on the system and negatively impacting the quality of the final packaged product. Alongside constructing the customized motor assist, I authored a comprehensive instruction manual, providing detailed guidance on assembling both the mechanical and electrical components of the motor assist.

The lower arm is connected to a potentiometer and, when it is moved due to increased tension in the system, the motor is activated. As the video on the right shows, this helps unroll the tape.

Label Acceptance Bin

Another project I worked on was the design of an acceptance bin for an automatic "dotter" machine. This machine was loaded with shipping labels. Irradiation dots, which marked the products as being sterilized, were placed on the labels by a robotic arm. The machine evaluated each label and separated them according to whether they were deemed acceptable or not. I designed a sheet-metal acceptance bin, which collected the labels deemed acceptable.